Suzhou seeks to follow in Shanghai's FTZ footsteps
Updated: 2014-03-11 08:58
By Zhao Shengnan (China Daily)
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More than 700 financial organizations operate in Suzhou, including more than 50 domestic and foreign banks, Zhou said.
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The Kunshan pilot zone, for instance, is allowed to conduct tests of individual cross-Straits renminbi business, and enterprises in the pilot zone and Taiwan also are permitted to carry out tests of internal renminbi loans.
Zhuang Yumin, deputy dean of the School of Finance at Renmin University of China in Beijing, said Suzhou's large-scale and concentrated industrial economy in Suzhou qualifies it to become a regional financial center.
"Such an economy's need for upgrading also calls for better financial service there," said Zhuang, who once worked for the municipal government for one year.
Suzhou, about 100 kilometers west of China's economic hub of Shanghai, housed about 18,200 overseas companies at the end of 2013. Major industries include iron and steel, technology, electronic equipment manufacturing and textile products.
Suzhou's import and export volume hit $309.3 billion last year, accounting for 8 percent of the country's total and 56 percent of that of Jiangsu province, according to Zhou.
"Based on the Shanghai zone's experience, we also seek to expand trade and increase the share of service trade," said Zhou.
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